Larry Kaiser, M.D.
President

Susan Coulter, J.D.
Vice President, Office
of Institutional Advancement

Wendy K. Mohon
Editor

Linda Ha
Web Developer

November, 2005
Table of Contents

From Research to Medical Practice

 

Michael Svinte, left, vice president-information based medicine, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Jack W. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., interim dean of The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS), pause after Svinte speaks at a symposium on Information-Based Translational Medicine. Institutional leaders and researchers from throughout the Texas Medical Center discussed strategies for translational medicine, incorporating the most advanced biomedical research findings, medical practice knowledge, and information technology. The invitational symposium Sept. 29-30 at Trevisio's was sponsored and funded by IBM and organized by SHIS in collaboration with IBM, Baylor College of Medicine, the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University, the University of Houston, and the Gulf Coast Consortia. Photo by Ester Fant

Michael Svinte, left, vice president-information based medicine, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Jack W. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., interim dean of The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS), pause after Svinte speaks at a symposium on “Information-Based Translational Medicine.” Institutional leaders and researchers from throughout the Texas Medical Center discussed strategies for translational medicine, incorporating the most advanced biomedical research findings, medical practice knowledge, and information technology. The invitational symposium Sept. 29-30 at Trevisio’s was sponsored and funded by IBM and organized by SHIS in collaboration with IBM, Baylor College of Medicine, the UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University, the University of Houston, and the Gulf Coast Consortia.

Photo by Ester Fant